Rescuing

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rescue \Res"cue\ (r[e^]s"k[-u]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rescued}
     (-k?d);p. pr. & vb. n. {Rescuing}.] [OE. rescopuen, OF.
     rescourre, rescurre, rescorre; L. pref. re- re- + excutere to
     shake or drive out; ex out + quatere to shake. See {Qtash} to
     crush, {Rercussion}.]
     To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or


     evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or
     withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a
     prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction.
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           Had I been seized by a hungry lion,
           I would have been a breakfast to the best,
           Rather than have false Proteus rescue me. --Shak.
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     Syn: To retake; recapture; free; deliver; liberate; release;
          save.
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